The start of the Affordable Care Act has been delayed to January 2015 and now is the time to get educated on provisions for Corporate Wellness Programs which are critical to combatting rising healthcare costs.

As the healthcare landscape continues to move toward a customer-centric approach, there’s a lot healthcare can learn from retail. More specifically, lessons from retail call centers offer the healthcare sector best practices to provide better personalization in their engagements with consumers and patients – before and after clinical encounters.
This guide explores three ways retail call centers provide experiences that healthcare leaders can incorporate to provide the personalization needed to impact consumers in today’s evolving healthcare marketing landscape.

Founded in 1997, Benchmark Senior Living is the largest senior living provider in New England. The community in Shelton, Connecticut is just a short drive from the Connecticut coastline—the Split Rock community is home to about 50 assisted living and memory care residents. In addition to being a LEED-certified facility, Split Rock also exemplifies Benchmark Senior Living’s goal to leverage technology to enrich the lives of residents. To that end, the facility incorporates a range of communication technologies to promote engagement with family and the community.
Read this case study to learn about how Benchmark Senior Living selected an integrated solution from STANLEY Healthcare and STANLEY Security encompassing emergency call from portable pendants and fixed call points, wander management, environmental monitoring and access control to improve resident's lives.

In the arena of corporate governance and compliance, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) has commanded considerable attention; in the healthcare industry, it's HIPAA; similar regulations target the financial services and energy sectors. Organizations can use technology to meet compliance demands in a cost-effective way.

Download our business brief to learn more about the changing health care landscape and how private health exchanges are realigning incentives to benefit everyone in the value chain: employers, insurance carriers, employees and providers.

This technical brief streamlines and simplifies the key issues in the new regulatory landscape and provides information to help inform important business decisions regarding Wellness programs. "The Legal Environment of Wellness" offers in depth information abuot wellness program requirements under the ACA, and reviews how corporate wellness programs are impacted by the rulings of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and HIPAA. In addition to the ACA, it covers information companies need to be aware of regarding how other legislation may impact their health promotion efforts. Choosing a new wellness program or bringing current programs into compliance will require a thorough understanding of new and existing laws and sometimes complex decisions and structural redesign.

There’s discussion in the HR industry today about companies requiring employees to submit vital health statistics (weight, blood pressure, body fat) or pay a fine, usually seen as an increase in health premium payments. Some say it's "technology-enhanced discrimination on steroids," while others say it's a great incentive for employees to take their health seriously.
Virgin HealthMiles wanted to know what healthcare buyers think about the policy, and here’s what you said in a March 2013 survey:

There are three options for creating a distinct brand for your workplace health and wellness programs. You can use your existing corporate brand, create a new and distinct sub-brand for your programs, or use a third party’s brand as the foundation of your health and wellness initiatives. Each of these branding options has its benefits and challenges, depending upon your goals. In this paper, we’ll discuss the merits of these branding options and help you understand how they can impact your health and wellness initiatives.

Discover how you can leverage these five best practices of high-performing corporate wellness programs to make your wellness initiatives more successful in reaching the end game: healthier, happier, and more-productive employees.

When it comes to engaging employees in workplace wellness programs today, the operative phrase is quickly becoming, “Let the games begin!”
After suffering decreasing engagement and fewer savings than they initially expected from their wellness programs, employers are boosting participation by incorporating gamification—the emerging field of applying game mechanics and strategies to various types of applications and programs.
The end game, you might say, is lower healthcare costs, along with happier, more productive and engaged employees.

Most U.S. businesses are still sorting out the implications of federal healthcare reform — even though the legislation became law in 2010, was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court last June, and has already seen several of its mandates implemented. Nonetheless, if you’re responsible for the success of your company’s wellness programs, the best part of the complex healthcare reform law is yet to come.

The annual RightScale State of the Cloud Survey research team has now joined Flexera—and our newest Report doesn't disappoint. Check out some of our key takeaways for 2019.
The #1 cloud priority in 2019 is cost optimization. Most enterprises already spend over $1 million a year in public cloud, yet users underestimate the amount of their wasted cloud spend.
With companies now running 79% of their workload in cloud, this rapid rise poses a challenge for IT teams whose business units often control the purse strings. How does your cloud infrastructure compare?
This leading survey of 786 corporate cloud users gives you a by-the-numbers look, from small business to large enterprise, from healthcare to government and across a wide range of industries. Get all the details in this eighth annual report. Download it today.

The annual RightScale State of the Cloud Survey research team has now joined Flexera—and our newest Report doesn't disappoint. Check out some of our key takeaways for 2019.
The #1 cloud priority in 2019 is cost optimization. Most enterprises already spend over $1 million a year in public cloud, yet users underestimate the amount of their wasted cloud spend.
With companies now running 79% of their workload in cloud, this rapid rise poses a challenge for IT teams whose business units often control the purse strings. How does your cloud infrastructure compare?
This leading survey of 786 corporate cloud users gives you a by-the-numbers look, from small business to large enterprise, from healthcare to government and across a wide range of industries. Get all the details in this eighth annual report. Download it today.

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